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Property Organism Value Units ID Details
genome size Bread wheat Triticum aestivum 16800 MBp 102713 Plant Molecular Biology...
Number of genes Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans 22901 Unitless 100313 Choi J, Newman AP. A...
Number of genes Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana 26990 unitless 100473 Feng J, Naiman DQ, Cooper...
Genome Size Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1.21e+7 Base pairs 100459 Goffeau A et al., Life...
Number of chromosomes (most of any known animal) Red vizcacha rat Tympanoctomys barrerae 102 chromosomes 110010 Gallardo MH, González CA...
Number of predicted protein-coding genes Physcomitrella patens 27949 genes 111377 Lang D, Zimmer AD, Rensing SA...
Number of chromosomes in genome of most conifers Plants 12 (2n = 24 Table - link) chromosomes 113646 Nystedt B et al., The...
Euchromatic genome Size Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster 1.2e+8 Base pairs 100199 Adams MD et al, The genome...
Estimated number of genes Corn Zea mays 42,000-56,000 unitless 105521 Haberer et al., Structure...
Number of different linear and circular plasmids (other than linear chromosome) Bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi ≥17 different plasmids/cell 111257 Fraser et al., Genomic...
Fraction of cell divisions in which the endogenous 2μ plasmid is lost Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae <0.01 % 113501 Gnügge R, Rudolf F. ...
Number of genes Bacteria Caulobacter crescentus 3767 (Table - link) unitless 105498 Nierman et al., Complete...
Number of genes Sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus 23300 unitless 105518 Sea Urchin Genome Sequencing...
Genome sizes and gene numbers of various eukaryotes Eukaryotes Table - link N/A 106967 Lynch M, Conery JS. The...
GC content of eukaryotes Eukaryotes Table - link % 102523 Zhou Y, Bizzaro JW, Marx...
Number of proteins in ribosome Various Database - link N/A 102480 Ribosomal Protein Gene...
Transposable element contents of some model organisms Various Table - link N/A 103848 Heikki Vilen, Mu in vitro...
GC content of eukaryotes in different parts of genome Various Table - link N/A 102524 Zhou Y, Bizzaro JW, Marx...
Genome sequence data and data validation information for 19 eukaryotes Eukaryotes Table - link N/A 111923 Xu L, Chen H, Hu X, Zhang R...
Metazoan genome size and gene number Various Table - link N/A 103651 C.U.M. Smith Biology...